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Lecture Goals • General Prologue Portraits Discussion of Estates Satire and Chaucer’s voicing Miller’s Tale
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Lecture Goals. General Prologue Portraits Discussion of Estates Satire and Chaucer ’ s voicing Miller ’ s Tale. Chaucer Challenge. Optional contest – extra credit toward course participation grade Write your own General Prologue—set at UCSD - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Lecture Goals
• General Prologue PortraitsDiscussion of Estates Satire and Chaucer’s
voicing
Miller’s Tale
Chaucer Challenge
• Optional contest – extra credit toward course participation grade
• Write your own General Prologue—set at UCSD
• E-Submit to Prof. Lampert-Weissig by 5 pm Oct. 22 ([email protected]) Subject heading: Chaucer challenge
Contemporary Estates Satire
• Mean Girls
Thinksheet Week 2• Due at the beginning of your section• Double-spaced, typed. ½ to one full page. No more than one page.• • Read through each of the following portraits carefully:• • The Monk (lines 165-207)• The Friar (lines 209-271)• The Clerk (lines 287-310)• The Parson (lines 480-530)• • Pick ONE of these portraits and respond to the following about it:• • 1. Make a list of 3-5 important details in the pilgrim’s portrait.• • 2. What kind of details are these? Ironic? Serious? What is their effect?• How do they work to create this effect?• • 3. How would you characterize the point of view of the narrator? •
Chaucer—social chameleon
• Died. 1400. Wrote in Middle English
• A poet with a good day job• Master of irony • “Father of English Poetry”
Chaucer reading
The Canterbury Tales
• Frame Tale—The General Prologue–Pilgrimage–First 18 lines
•Spring fever•Virtuoso poetry
Canterbury Cathedral
The Canterbury Tales
• Frame Tale—The General Prologue–Pilgrimage–First 18 lines
•Spring fever•Virtuoso poetry
Frame Tale
• The Host’s Proposal
• Sentence and Solaas
• Dramatic feel of the CT
Chaucer’s Voicing
• Perspective and Point of View
• Chaucer’s “disclaimer” l. 717 ff
• GP—8th edition, page 218
• 9th edition, page 243
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Estates Satire
• The Three Estates• Social Commentary
Three Estates
Selected Portraits
• The Knight l. 43• The Squire l. 79 • The Prioress l. 118• The Sergeant of the Law l. 311• The Miller l. 547• The Summoner l. 625• The Parson l. 479
Squire
Monk
Friar
Pardoner
Franklin
Cook
Shipman
Physician
Parson (line 479)
Miller (line 547)
